Saturday, August 13, 8:00 p.m.
Silent film: “Mark of Zorro”
starring Douglas Fairbanks, live piano accompaniment by Ben Model
$10 / $7

Come experience one of the iconic motion pictures of the silent era as audiences of 90 years ago did... with live musical accompaniment. See the original Mark of Zorro, a classic silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks, with live piano accompaniment by Ben Model, silent film pianist for New York’s MoMA. This swashbuckling action-comedy is the film that started it all, full of suspense, drama, action and stunts.

Cancelled: Saturday, August 27, 4:30 p.m.
Daedalus String Quartet
Music by Haydn, Schumann, Dvorák
$25 / $20

Praised by The New Yorker as “a fresh and vital young participant in what is a golden age of American string quartets,” the Daedalus Quartet has established itself as a leader among the new generation of string ensembles.
The Quartet has received plaudits from critics and listeners alike for the technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances. The New York Times has praised the Daedalus Quartet’s “insightful and vibrant” Haydn and the “impressive intensity” of its Beethoven. The Houston Chronicle has described the “silvery beauty” of the Quartet’s Schubert, the Boston Globe the “finesse and fury” of its Shostakovich and the Cincinnati Enquirer the “tremendous emotional power” of its Brahms. The Quartet has performed in many of the world’s famed concert locations including Lincoln Center (New York), Musikverein (Vienna), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Cité de la Musique (Paris) as well as leading venues in Japan, China and Canada.

A reception follows in the Meeting House Art Gallery

Saturday, September 10, 4:30 p.m.
A Late Afternoon of Jazz, Wine and Food
Vocalist Hilary Gardner with “West 73rd” – Music by Kurt Weill, with a gala wine tasting hosted by Domaney’s Fine Wines
$25 / $20

Vocalist Hilary Gardner made her Broadway debut in Twyla Tharp’s 2010 musical, Come Fly Away. Backed by a 19-piece big band, Hilary sang solos and duets with the recorded Frank Sinatra in a performance hailed as “wonderful” (Huffington Post). She will appear as the voice of “West 73rd,” a quartet dedicated to exploring and re-imagining songs by Kurt Weill and others. Together with pianist Frank Ponzio, bassist Peter Donovan and drummer Vito Lesczak, West 73rd’s debut CD, A Song About Forever: Kurt Weill Project, was nominated for a MAC Award for “Best Jazz Recording of 2008.”

A gala wine tasting follows in the Meeting House Gallery

Saturday, September 17, 4:30 p.m.
The Apollo Trio
Curtis Macomber, violin; Michael Kannen, cello; Marija Stroke, piano
Beethoven, Shostakovich and Dvorák
$25 / $20

Performing together for over a decade, these three passionate and exciting musicians have been critically acclaimed for “vitality and poetic fire” (Strad Magazine, the definitive voice of the string music world) and for “music making of stature and substance” (London’s Daily Telegraph), The ensemble returns to the Meeting House to perform trios by Beethoven, Shostakovich and Dvorák’s ever popular “Dumky” Trio.

A reception follows in the Meeting House Art Gallery

Bob Dylan

Seth Rogovoy

Funded in part by the MCC
through the New Marlborough
Cultural Council

Saturday, September 24, 4:30 p.m.
A Bob Dylan Celebration
with Seth Rogovoy and Ken Regan
$25 / $20

Seth Rogovoy is an award-winning music critic, author and musician. He has a passionate interest in the music and poetry of Bob Dylan. Ken Regan is one of the few to hold the title of “official Bob Dylan photographer.” His photographic work documenting Dylan in performance and behind-the-scenes is well known to Dylan fans, and many of these images have become iconic. Seth will present a multimedia program based on his book, Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic Poet, followed by a tribute concert featuring the songs of Bob Dylan, on the occasion of Dylan’s seventieth birthday. For the concert, Rogovoy, who sings and plays guitar and harmonica, will be joined by his band, the Rolling Rogovoy Revue, featuring fiddler/vocalist Alicia Jo Rabins, bassist Rob Sanzone, and drummer Willie Watkins. The Meeting House Art Gallery will simultaneously exhibit Ken Regan: Bob Dylan Photographs.

Supported in part by grants from the Y’Diyah Fund of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation
and the MCC through the New Marlborough Cultural Council.

Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreyfus

Bruce Murkoff

 
Tracy Kidder

Saturday October 1, 4:30 p.m.
Award-Winning Authors
Host: Mitchel Levitas of The New York Times
$15 / $10

Four nationally prominent authors will discuss the rewards and frustrations of writing their recently published work and answer questions from the audience.
Andrew Hacker is the author of Two Nations, about America’s racial divide. Claudia Dreifus, a prize-winning journalist, writes for The New York Times. They collaborated on HIGHER EDUCATION? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It.
Bruce Murkoff’s most recent book, Red Rain, a historical novel that takes place during the Civil War, was praised by The Washington Post as “…a powerfully imagined and thoroughly believable vision of America.”
Tracy Kidder has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. His most recent book, Strength in What Remains, has been described as “A tale of ethnocide, exile and healing by a master of narrative nonfiction… ” Kirkus Reviews.
Mitchel Levitas has been at The New York Times for over 40 years in various senior editorial positions: Metropolitan Editor, The Week in Review editor, editor of the Sunday Book Review, editor of the Op-Ed Page and currently executive associate of the paper’s Book Development Program which he launched in 1999.

A book signing and reception follows in the Meeting House Art Gallery